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Dorothy Mort, 18 April 1921 - Convicted of murder. Mrs Dorothy Mort was having an affair with dashing young doctor Claude Tozer. On 21 December 1920 Tozer visited her home with the intention of breaking off the relationship.

Here is an old mugshot photograph of a severely battered woman named Bubbles Mague that was taken sometime during the I have no information about the crimes she was accused of.

Mugshots of Australian women criminals from the 1920s

Eugenia Falleni was an Australian woman, who in 1920 was charged with the murder of her wife. She lived for 22 years as Harry Crawford convincing 2 wives she was a man. Extraordinary story and true crime precedent in legal history.

Ed Gein Crime Scene (my note: This is a detail of a photo taken during what is usually called The Armenian Genocide)

Convicted of stealing. The jury could not decide whether Nellie Cassidy was guilty of 'stealing a lady's costume', or if she had merely acted as a fence, and so a special verdict 'that she was guilty of one or the other' was entered.

German doctor Herta Oberhauser, who was desperate to be a surgeon and performed many of the brutal experiments. She was eventually sentenced to 20 years in the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial, but only served five.